Obsolete Your Idols

Who's THAT?

You may not know Lois Weisberg. But you probably know someone who does. This article is brain-smashingly amazing. Read the whole thing. Seriously, it's revealing and insightful and inspiring and wonderful.

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Virtual Shopping

Relatively recently, I became aware of RPGnow through Atomic Sock Monkey Press's Dead Inside, mentioned repeatedly on the Unknown Armies mailing list.

After poking around for a bit, I went on a buying spree and came out of it extremely pleased with the experience. Some wacky affordable games I would never have otherwise found, some out of print supplements I've missed having around, and a painless purchasing process. You pays your money, they email you some links, you save some files, unzip, and voila. In my case, voila means burn to CD and eyeball to see what might need printing right away to scribble on and jot marginalia.

As basis of comparison, you can find many rare out-of-print gaming things auctioned off on eBay for 4-5x the cost you can find it at RPGnow. If what you're after is the data, not the physical heft, it's a no-brainer. I gather RPGnow also has a division which will sell you hardcopy versions of some of the small-press games and they'll even burn you a CD of the stuff you buy, other than TSR stuff. Many options and lots of goodies you won't feel bad about buying afterwards.

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